AEDAS wins major Indian design brief
THE Manchester office of architecture and design consultancy Aedas has won a competitive brief to masterplan and design a major project in India.
The firm saw off competition from rivals HOK, Gensler and SOM to land the project at a 67-acre site in Kanjur Marg, Mumbai.
The 12 million square foot mixed-use development will integrate residential, office and retail and will become a lifestyle destination for Southern and Eastern Mumbai.
The design, offers a substantial addition to the quality of urban space currently available in Mumbai and will create a ‘walk-able’ community where public spaces converge into a large retail-led mixed-use development.
Saurabh Bhandari, associate director at Aedas said “We believe this development will set precedence for the area as it will offer added value within the active public space and will provide the area’s first block of iconic high rise towers”.
“The quality of the un-built space is as important to the end-user as the built accommodation and this philosophy will be a strong USP for our clients. The scale of this development along with the opportunity to develop iconic addresses for the residents has been of huge importance to our clients and a winning design.“
The development, which will be completed in a number of phases, is planned as a series of distinct neighbourhoods linked to serve as one large interconnected place.
